Training to give God and His Body our best effort is essential. I could spend days and lots of blog posts highlighting great materials you can purchase and conferences you can attend. But we live in a great day of technology. Much information is available to us for free. Some of it is very helpful and comes with a variety of tools for putting it to effective use.

Here are several free LifeWay Christian Resources training resources (books, PowerPoint presentations, handouts, and teaching plans) for each of the following resources. Rather than print the books, I would recommend purchase since the cost of paper and ink to print them will likely exceed the US cost of $1.00 to $1.50 for the books plus shipping.

LifeWay also provides a set of supplemental current event/illustrations and teaching plans for Bible Studies for Life and for Explore the Bible. You can find those free materials at www.lifeway.com/extra. This list could go on and on. I want to include one more resource that those using LifeWay's literature, Bible Studies for Life, may find helpful. It is a set of support materials developed by Dr. Steve Armstrong who is a professor at LaTourneau University and a senior adult teacher at Mobberly Baptist Church in Longview, Texas.

Also, my friend, Josh Hunt, has many great free articles and some great books (for sale) along with great questions to go along with LifeWay lessons. You can find Josh's website at www.joshhunt.com.

Need to provide teacher training? Don't have much money? Now you don't have an excuse. You can train your teachers with these high-quality, free materials for months and years to come. Start planning now. Raise your expectations. Increase your training. Release workers into the harvest. Give God your best. Be revolutionary!

Sunday School is a time-tested, effective method of discipleship. However, due to a lack of volunteers many churches are trying alternatives. I feel that the rational that students become dependent upon the program or the adult mentor for spiritual growth is a cop out.

It does require a strong commitment on the part of the teacher. We must accept the responsibility for our kids as the family of Christ. As a Sunday School teacher you will have a pivotal mentoring role in the lives of your students long after they graduate. Thank you for all the helpful links and resources. Check out my website for ree lesson plans too: Sunday School Lesson Connection.

I am currently the president of the youth board and the youth in our church have gone through a couple of losses as far as teachers and facilities. We have lots of children under the age of 12 but we have quite a few children over the age of 12 and I would just like some help with organizing the 2 groups. Whatever materials you have that we can use to get ideas about increasing attendance, it would be helpful.

I teach 13/14 year old for confirmation.It is always a difficult task to keep their attention for more than 20min and to teach them the importance of the class(Why they should attend)Any help would be appreciated,Thank you

I am so blessed and impressed from your ministry work. I never heard before about your ministry work but this is my first time that i found your website page through Divinely connection.

I was searching some truthful and faithful and teaching able Christian website page but immediately your website page open before me. You are doing great work for the kingdom of God.

you have true burden and compassion for the lost souls of this world. This is my prayer for you and your family and your team that God give you more wisdom, understanding and revelations about the kingdom of God.

I am requested to you please pray for me and my family and my child ministry work.

I would like to invite you here in Pakistan for revival and child ministry work. God be with you. I cover you in the blood of Jesus Christ. He is coming soon.

I recently stepped in this late year 2011 as an overseer for the children ministry at our church. And I was one of the sunday school teachers as well 10 yrs ago when i used to live in Africa. I would like to find out more about your creative strategies to empower volunteer teachers in our sunday school community. Thanks for making this your heart mission as well your life project to share with the world...Bless you!

I would love to have some free material on helping train our Sunday school teachers. We have different age group at our church. Age group: 2-4, 5-6,7-9 and 10-13 and Adults. If you could supply us with some material we would be greatly appreciate.

I just read through your not and I like them. Tried to sign up but not successful on so many trials. Can you send me training materials/ tutorials for kids and youth church leaders. If possible if I can have materials for teaching the kids from Age 0-4, 5-6,

I have been searching for help to build the sunday school and i found you wedsite while reading through i found it very interesting and innovative so i decides to send a comment and ask for help with training materials for teacher and other resoureful help for me as the superintendent of sunday school.we are a small congregation.thanks. may God grant you deeper inspiration for His kingdom.

Preparing to teach Sunday school, opening day of our state convocation. June 18... Have a theme, a outline(daily devotional, the need, the bible learning, application, response... I sm stuck like chuck... challenge is on cruise that I am not at to be on... Divine intervention is needed...

hallow brethren, i am a christian born again, trained as a Sunday school teacher and currently studying bible theology at Nairobi pentecostal bible college. please send me some materials for my Sunday school and church, thanks. may God bless you. amen

At SSU, we provide a weekly video overview of both dated lessons - Bible Studies for Life and Explore the Bible. taught by seminary professors and leading church education experts, the Video Lesson Previews offer Bible insights, teaching tips, and concrete Bible-to-life application points for every lesson in an easy-to-digest 14-minute package.

Am planning a training for our Sunday School teachers and have no materials as this is my first. The need to train them is great as this is a new experience for them. I am basically a school teacher. i need help. Please send me something to guide me to train them. Thank you.